​There have been so many times when England were such a tactically flat, stressed-out bunch that they could squeeze the joy out of battering even the meekest opposition, so against Panama you had to rub your eyes at the general levels of fun being had.

This was England as we rarely see them, the game won in the first half, a place in the second round with a match to spare and a general feeling of abandon...

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